Numerous resolutions have been issued by the UAE allowing students to work and get training at operational enterprises. Regulations are in place to guarantee that the employer and intern are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
In the United Arab Emirates, children under fifteen are not permitted to work. Teenagers between 15 and 18 are allowed to work in the United Arab Emirates, under certain conditions. In order for them to work legally, students also need to have juvenile work permits.
Students may work and get training in enterprises or operational institutions if they are at least 15 years old. This is only allowed, though, if there is a formal written contract that specifies the parameters of their work and training.
Under the terms of a formal contract, any facility may instruct pupils at least 15 years old. The agreement must contain:
- Working Hours per Day
- Duration of the Training Period
- The nature of the work must be made clear in the contract.
- Training areas
- The wage (if any)
- Value of the bonus, if any, and any other benefits the trainee may get in line with the scheme the organisation has implemented
- Holidays both weekly and otherwise
Employers are allowed to hire students who are 15 years old during the summer (school breaks), but only for a maximum of three consecutive months at a time.
The following documents and requirements must be completed for the students to get training or employment:
1. The parent or legal guardian of the pupil must provide written approval.
2. The EID, or Emirates Identity Card
3. Proof of student status
4. A current UAE residency permit for international students
5. A physical fitness certificate that has been certified by a qualified medical professional.
A letter from the student's parent or legal guardian will do in lieu of this certificate in the event of training, nevertheless.
6. If the student is receiving training, a letter or certificate of no objection from the educational institution where they are enrolled.
7. Students are not permitted to work in suspended establishments or get training there.
The following rules must be followed by the business that is training or hiring the juvenile student during the summer break:
1. Businesses are not allowed to train young people for or hire them for any of the jobs that the 2018 decree (Ministerial Decree No. 519) prohibits.
2. Night labour on industrial projects is prohibited for juvenile pupils. "Night" denotes a minimum of twelve hours in a row, encompassing the hours of 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
3. For juvenile pupils, the maximum number of real working hours each day is six hours. They are entitled to one or more breaks for food, relaxation, or prayer throughout these working hours, with a minimum of one hour of break time. These breaks ought to be planned so that there are never more than four straight working hours without a break.
During the juvenile student's employment, orientations and/or trainings must be completed inside working hours. Under no circumstances can the young learner be kept at work for longer than seven hours at a time.
4. Under no circumstances may juvenile pupils be required to work overtime or stay at the job after regular business hours. On holidays, they will not be required to work.
5. Instruction in the application of occupational health and safety measures must be provided to juvenile students. While implementing these procedures, they must to be observed to guarantee their appropriate use. A suitable work or training environment that is offered to all employees will be given to them, with care for the circumstances surrounding the juvenile.
6. If a juvenile student becomes ill, misses work, or engages in behaviour that necessitates the guardian or custodian's awareness during working or training hours, the establishments are required to notify the student's guardian or custodian.
At the conclusion of the training programme or job, the employer should provide the student with an experience certificate that details their tasks for the assigned time and includes a performance evaluation.
Companies are urged to compensate interns for any expenditures they spend relating to the internship, even though internships are not required to be paid.
Except as specified in the contract, the trained or hired student is not entitled to any further leaves of absence or an end-of-service bonus.
Students under the age of eighteen are not permitted to work in the following positions:
- working at bakeries in front of ovens.
- labouring underground in quarries, mines, and other operations involving the extraction and excavation of stones and metals.
- working in furnaces that are ready to refine, mature, or burn metal.
- Mirror production and processing using the use of mercury.
- welding utilising electricity, acetylene, and oxygen.
- plants that refine oil.
- cement manufacturing plants.
- Applying Duco paint.
- Lead-containing ash is prepared, reduced, and silver is extracted from lead.
- Production of zinc and metal compounds with a lead content of greater than 10%.
- factories that produce ice and cooling.
- production of explosives, fireworks, and other goods.
- producing lead carbonates, orange lead oxide, lead sulphate, chromate, and silicates, as well as lead monoxide (also known as "golden spirit" or yellow lead oxide).
- combining ingredients to make paste for use in electric battery maintenance or manufacture.
- production of asphalt.
- manufacture of oils using mechanical means.
- Glass melting and developing.
- Cleaning workshops used for the tasks listed in items 12, 13, 14, and 15.
- Handling or observing the maintenance, cleaning, or repair of driving machinery while they are in use.
- employment in tanneries.
- Animals are scalded, skinned, and their fats melted.
- producing chemical crops, fertilisers, mineral acid coefficients, and labouring in their warehouses.
- Textiles dyed, bleached, and printed.
- producing rubber
- working in pressurised gas filling cylinders.
- loading and unloading cargo at ports, warehouses, basins, and docks.
- transferring passengers via internal waterways or land.
- serving customers like waiters in clubs.
- producing coal from animal bones, eliminating the need to sieve the bones before burning.
- working in pubs.
- if the weight of the heavy object exceeds the limits specified in the table that is linked to this decree, lifting, tugging, or pushing it
Students from Emirati universities that excel in academics can apply for internships through the Ministry of Education. Students from Emirati universities can discover internship opportunities at a number of important private sector knowledge-based organisations in the United Arab Emirates through the internship site. Thirty international private sector firms and leading government-owned private sector enterprises in the United Arab Emirates are among the companies providing possibilities.
